Dave Warren was named president and general
manager of the North America Water Heating business unit in July 2017. In this
role, Dave has profit and loss responsibility for the 10 brands that make up
the operation. He oversees the unit’s 4,860 employees at facilities in the
U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Dave last served as vice
president of the India, Europe and export businesses, overseeing the company’s
international water heater operations in Europe, and water heater and water
treatment operations in Turkey and India. He also was responsible for the
company’s export water heater activities.
He joined A. O. Smith in 1989
as a wholesale sales coordinator and was promoted to district manager of the
South Texas District. In 1999, he was named a regional sales manager for the
South Central Region. In 2002, he became director of Reliance retail water
heater sales. In 2004, Dave was named managing director of the company’s
Veldhoven operation with responsibility for the European and Middle Eastern
markets and export water heater sales.
Dave is a graduate of the
University of Minnesota with a BA in sales and marketing and has taken courses
in international business from Franklin University-Switzerland in Lugano,
Switzerland.